Ann Thwaite

Ann Thwaite

Ann Thwaite (born 1932) is a British writer, best known as a biographer. She is married to the poet, Anthony Thwaite.

Ann Thwaite was born in London, but lived in New Zealand during World War II, returning to the UK to study. She is a graduate of St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Works

*"Waiting for the Party" (biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett)
*"Edmund Gosse" (1985)
*"A. A. Milne" (1990)
*"Emily Tennyson: the Poet's Wife"
*"Glimpses of the Wonderful" (biography of Philip Gosse)


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